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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Christianity and Stoicism
Goethe, Venetian Epigrams 12 (tr. David Luke):
What applies to Christianity applies to the Stoics as well.
To be a Christian or a Stoic is unfitting for a free human being.
Was vom Christentum gilt, gilt von den Stoikern: freien Menschen geziemet es nicht, Christ oder Stoiker sein.